Age‐friendly environments and incident motoric cognitive risk syndrome in older adults: A prospective cohort study
Hui Zhang, Zixin Hu, Chongyu Ding, Yaqian Xu, Shuai Jiang, Yi Li, Jiucun Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Meng Hao, Xiangwei Li · 2026
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Hui Zhang and nine co-authors link age-friendly surroundings to lower pre-dementia risk in a 2026 paper. The syndrome pairs slow gait with memory complaints. It forecasts dementia, falls, and early death in older adults. Age-friendly environments follow a World Health Organization frame.
The cohort held 7,608 older adults free of the syndrome at start. Over a median four years, 801 new cases appeared. The friendliest areas cut risk by over a third at the top end. Each step up in friendliness score lowered risk a bit more. The dose-response pattern held across the full range. Building such neighborhoods may delay dementia, they suggest.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hui Zhang, Zixin Hu, Chongyu Ding, Yaqian Xu, Shuai Jiang, Yi Li, Jiucun Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Meng Hao, Xiangwei Li |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |